Calling off protest: LoC bus service to resume today

Bus service remained suspended for 13 days after alleged recovery of narcotics in a truck from AJK

MUZAFFARABAD:

After remaining suspended for 13 days, the cross-Line of Control (LoC) Muzaffarabad-Srinagar bus service will resume its operation from Monday (today).

The cross-LoC bus service was suspended after alleged recovery of narcotics in a truck from Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) in Indian administered Kashmir on February 3. The Indian authorities had arrested the driver Syed Inyat Hussain Shah along with the truck and refused to send him back to the AJK.

The traders, truck drivers and family members of the arrested driver were on strike in Ghari Dupatta, some 25 kilometres from Muzaffarabad.  The protesters were demanding the release of the driver from the Indian administered Kashmir and had threatened to stop the cross-LoC movement of buses and trucks.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 16^th, 2015.